A slow holiday week offers a chance to take a look at box sets from the past month. Eclectic as all get out (try Yasujiro Ozu to Fred Willard), these are too rich or splashy to be ignored, given their respective fan bases.

Baseball is set to strike out Fox's schedule, so enjoy tonight's new Bones (8 ET/PT) because it's the last one you'll get for a while. Don't bother looking for Justice, though. The show is already on hiatus, replaced tonight by a good House (9 ET/PT) from last season starring D.B. Sweeney as a friend of House's (Hugh Laurie) who thinks a Katrina victim is his daughter.

Baseball's unbalanced schedule, in which teams play a large chunk of games within their own division, means 19 Yankees-Red Sox games this season. But it also means a heavy number of games between the non-contending Royals and Indians and between the Brewers and Pirates. A closer look at the September schedule brings up a question: Should intradivision games and three weeks' worth of interleague games, for that matter continue to weigh down each team's schedule?

Chad Campbell shot a 5-under 67 on Saturday, but his lead at the Bob Hope Classic was trimmed to one as Scott Verplank put together his own 64 to grab second place. John Senden was alone in third after a 67, and lurking another two shots back was two-time Hope champion Phil Mickelson.

Air travelers are bracing for pre-Christmas changes in airport screening rules that the government says will improve security without significantly adding to wait times. The TSA will allow passengers to carry aboard planes some sharp objects now prohibited, including small scissors and tools, but also will begin more random searches of passengers.

The Department of Homeland Security's hotline designed to help identify foreigners and others who could harm U.S. interests has become a venting board for tens of thousands of tips from across the USA that have nothing to do with potential threats to the homeland.

A staple for many big-league clubs, the winter caravan, is on display throughout the USA. For example, the Arizona Diamondbacks are touring the state with their 2001 World Series trophy while some of the New York Mets rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.